>> I'm Heather Suber, and I'm a social
worker, and I'm at Family Crisis Services,
and I'm the victim advocate there.
And kind of what a victim advocate does is
basically casework for the cases we have there.
We deal with a lot of rape
cases and domestic violence,
and I work with the families,
as far as paperwork.
I also coordinate with the sheriff's
department, police department, medical, MDTs,
which are multidisciplinary teams, and we have
monthly meetings where we go in and we discuss,
like ongoing cases, whether
or not we're closing cases.
Are they going to trial?
Especially with our sexual assault cases.
A busy day for me looks like three to four
forensic interviews, which we do in house.
I'm not a forensic interviewer, but I do
the case management for them, and also,
it's several domestic violence calls.
You know, sporadically throughout the day.
Usually we have a crisis phone, which
is a cellphone that we do after hours,
but during our office hours, all domestic
violence calls come through the office.
It's usually someone will call and will
want to know where the closest shelter is,
and unfortunately, the closest one
here is a good 30 to 45 minutes away.
So I usually give directions.
I give counseling referrals.
We have several counselors in
the area that are specialized
in domestic violence, kind of talk them through.
Usually, they're pretty panicky.